The Alcohol Service @ Hammersmith & Fulham / Kensington and Chelsea / Westminster

Reference: CGL1986

 2 x Health & Wellbeing and Hospital Alcohol Liaison Nurse

37.5 hours per week

SCP 29-36

£26,759.47 - £32,584.66 per annum plus Inner London Weighting  £3,584.73 per annum

NHS equivalent Band 6

The Alcohol Service @ Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster has been recently commissioned in 1^st April 2016.  The key aims of the service are to reduce alcohol related hospital admissions, increase numbers accessing alcohol treatment at an earlier stage and reduce alcohol related harm. The service will provide a wide of interventions including; blood borne virus screening and vaccination, clinically assisted alcohol reduction plans, community detoxification, counselling, extended brief interventions, health and wellbeing checks and hospital alcohol liaison.

As a Health & Wellbeing and Detox Nurse, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary staff team which will include; Alcohol Practitioners, Team Leaders, Counsellors, Doctors, Nurses, Psychologist and Volunteers.

You will manage community based alcohol detoxification programmes including undertaking comprehensive alcohol specialist nurse assessments, health triage, onward referrals and sign posting. You will ensure that service users drinking at increasing risk, harmful and dependent levels have equitable access to health interventions designed to reduce the harms related to alcohol on their physical and mental wellbeing.

The successful candidate will need to be motivated, enthusiastic, committed and driven in order to meet the expectations of this challenging role. You will proactively contribute to service delivery and development in order to support in all aspects of partnership and strategic objectives. The role requires a commitment to quality in governance and practice, and excellent communication skills.

CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit the very best staff from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users’ benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in all our recruitment processes.

We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants to these posts will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.
 

CGL provides membership of Nursing Times online to support revalidation.

All applications for this post will be subject to Enhanced DBS clearance

Excellent package of terms and conditions available on request

Closing Date Sunday 13^th May 2018

Interviews Thursday 17^th May 2018

Value Based Interviews Tuesday 22^nd May 2018